So, right before I fled the country to Turkey for a lovely Spring Break with whymc, I sold my house to my #1 apprentice. Almost immediately after the Mister and I returned from Istanbul, newly betrothed, we bought a house in Sun Prairie, a suburb just north of Madison. We are one door down from a big park and have a large city-owned empty lot behind us ( Read more... )

I've been so busy lately that I've failed to do a lot of blogging. To be fair, life has been moving at light speed. To provide the very, very bare Clif Notes:

Things have been going quite well with whymc, to the point that we have decided to combine households and proceed with the really being a fer realsies couple thing. We found a house we like (just ( Read more... )

Some highlights/lowlights of the year:

( blahblahblah... tl;dr )

A first draft:

Take more time to prioritize *my* projects
I have a huge to-do list and I am constantly letting people add things to my queue. The occasional small project is not a huge deal, but I need to beware of projects I think will take more than 5 hours and more firmly apply that most foreign of words - "no."

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I have been a slacker with my ( Read more... )

The Bad: a storm damaged some shingles on my roof and the roof dude from my insurance says I need a new roof ( Read more... )

I have not been very good about keeping up with posting about Life Stuff. I've been so busy, it's pretty much been just little bits of this-and-that that catch my eye and I keep meaning to do a real update. I'm avoiding other work, so here it is!

House stuff -
I had a showing last week on Friday. The lady seemed to really like the place, and she ( Read more... )

Well, I certainly had a full weekend!

Saturday, I got up early to get a jump on the day’s tasks. It was raining, so once again the yard clean up was on hold and painting the porch did not happen either. (Painting puddles is just not a good plan!) I worked on the final tidying in the basement instead until arebekah  came over at about 11AM. We spent ( Read more... )

Tonight:
Work
Dropped off WW stuff at SCA storage space
Dropped off craigslist sale for cash monies
Menards for paint shaking and supplies
Paint trellis and doorsill
Fish Fry and sewing with Roxelana (not strictly house related, but completely required for my sanity!)
touch up/second coat of paint where needed LR/DR/MBr
Listened to lectures and did ( Read more... )

So, yeah. Things are not going well.

Still coughing up a storm. Can't find any of my tools because the garage is a disaster. Even if I could find anything out there, it's covered with a quarter inch of sawdust that has been there since July. Even if I wanted to clean that up myself instead of continuing to delude myself that Mr S might someday do ( Read more... )

Tonight:
Appointment @ 5:30
Dropped off stuff at Sol's
Drop styrofoam at Home Concept for recycling
Meet w/ craigslist buyer
Determined which white is white
Pack car for Friday - stuff for SCA storage locker
Rescued Liz from tire place
Spackle and touch up paint in Hall
framed picture for kids' room and hang
fixed closet in Kids' room
washed walls in ( Read more... )